In March 2017, the long-awaited Early Years Workforce Strategy for England was published by the DfE. It aims to put in place a number of measures to address some of the difficulties currently...
During 2015/6 BERA funded three Research Commissions to identify and explore topics of concern for the discipline and its research communities. The Research Commissions were asked to: identify...
South Coast Symposium: Dr. Barbara Crossouard, University of Sussex This event is now fully booked. To be placed on the waiting list, please email events@bera.ac.uk. ...
Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. It has been widely argued that teacher retention and...
A BCF Event for schools, colleges, universities and early years settings Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email...
Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. 'Sexual and gendered violence is a continuing...
The UCL Institute of Education is launching a flagship research centre – the Centre for Education Improvement Science – to lead path-breaking research on educational system improvement. It is...
Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. This event is aimed at independent researchers who...
The idea that research could be described as ‘4*’ came from the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF). Four-star research is 'world-leading in terms of originality, significance and...
The Matthew effect is an expression that has been coined to summarise the parable of the talents found in Matthew’s gospel (Matthew 25:14-30), which suggests that the rich get richer while the...
Educationists and teachers have long complained of policy overload, particularly during the Gove years when schools suffered a ‘policy epidemic’ with changes to assessment and the...
Social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) in schools has, over the past decade, emerged as part of a broader mental health agenda, shaped and driven through versions of childhood located in notions of...